Trump's questionable vetting for pardons is once again at issue.

[lantern2814]

Ya got him this time, boi!

We can shut this whole thread down in two words. Coming from Bill Clinton's pardons. Mark Rich.

 

[Lesh]

We can shut this whole thread down in two words. Coming from Bill Clinton's pardons. Mark Rich.

What was that a quarter century ago?

 

[frigidweirdo]

New York drug dealer whose prison sentence Trump commuted arrested on assault charges​

A convicted New York drug dealer and predatory lender who walked free from a 10-year federal prison sentence after it was commuted in 2021 by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested on assault charges, court records show.

Jonathan Braun, was accused in court filings in Nassau County, Long Island, of assaulting his 75-year-old father-in-law on Tuesday, as he was trying to protect his daughter from Braun. Separately, Braun was also accused of assaulting that woman, his wife, last month and again last week, The New York Times reported.

Court records show Braun pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Wednesday to three counts of assault and was released on those charges without bail.

He was also accused in Nassau County Supreme Court of petit larceny, which the Times reported is related to allegations he failed to pay $160 in bridge tolls while driving a Lamborghini and Ferrari, both of which lack license plates.

Braun was fined $20 million in February by Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff in a civil case where the Federal Trade Commission had sued Braun for predatory lending practices.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/22/trump-clemency-recipient-jonathan-braun-arrest-assault.html

Trump’s Last-Minute Pardon Frees Man Still Facing Accusations of Violence​

President Donald J. Trump’s late-night commutation of a 10-year prison sentence being served by a drug smuggler named Jonathan Braun made the action sound almost routine. The White House said only that upon his release, Mr. Braun would “seek employment to support his wife and children.”

What the White House did not mention is that Mr. Braun, a New Yorker from Staten Island who had pleaded guilty in 2011 to leading a large-scale marijuana smuggling ring, still faces both criminal and civil investigations in an entirely separate matter, and has a history of violence and threatening people.
As recently as two and a half years ago, Mr. Braun was accused of throwing a man off a deck at an engagement party. Federal prosecutors said in a court proceeding that he threatened to beat a rabbi who borrowed money to renovate a preschool at his synagogue. “I am going to make you bleed,” he told the rabbi, according to court documents, adding, “I will make you suffer for every penny.”

Trump’s Last-Minute Pardon Frees Man Still Facing Accusations of Violence (Published 2021)

Jonathan Braun’s 10-year sentence for running a drug ring was commuted by the departing president. The White House did not mention that he faces separate accusations of violence and threats.

www.nytimes.com

There is a formal process involving the DoJ the WH is supposed to go through for folks who apply for a pardon or a commutation of a sentence. A review board normally takes a look at each case and makes a recommendation to the prez.

That process was circumvented as trump doled out clemency to friends, allies, donors, witnesses who did not cooperate with investigations that involved him and his campaign, and those who could help him politically. Does anyone really think a review board would have recommended the pardon of convicted felon Roger Stone?

This is the kind of demonstrable corruption you're voting for if you vote for His Orangeness.

The whole process is now just a way of giving favors to criminals, is that really how the US govt should be run?

 

[berg80]

Why hasn't Harris had him arrested? She was a prosecutor, you know.

Braun has already been arrested on assault charges in Nassau County.

 

[berg80]

Look, first thing Trump is going to pardon is those convicted of Jan 6 charges.

But not because they are innocent or because there is any provable miscarriage of justice. Because they are on his side. Or at least some of them are. The ones who haven't acknowledged their mistake.

A Key Jan. 6 Figure Pleads Guilty, Saying She Urged Oath Keepers To Delete Texts​

You can divide people who took Donald Trump’s claims that he actually won the 2020 election into roughly two camps: those who were in the know, and the true believers.

If less charitably inclined, you might call this a divide between the con artists and those who they duped. On one side are politicians, conservative movement insiders, activists, and others who played and continue to play along with the farce that the election was stolen; on the other are legions of people who took them at their word, and believed them. It’s an appeal, directed from the top downwards, to the paranoid style in American politics.

The Oath Keepers, the anti-government militia whose leadership was convicted of seditious conspiracy over its role in the Capitol breach, present an interesting example of this. On the one hand, you have a figure like Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. It’s clear from Rhodes’ statements before the election, his actions, and virtually everything about him that he was committed to demolishing the American state in its current form. Trump’s bogus election fraud claims may have been a vehicle to that end, but Rhodes was on a mission that was his own.

A Key Jan. 6 Figure Pleads Guilty, Saying She Urged Oath Keepers To Delete Texts​

You can divide people who took Donald Trump's claims that he actually won the 2020 election into roughly two camps: those who were in the know, and the true believers. If less charitably inclined…
talkingpointsmemo.com

 

[berg80]

Trump is guilty of the same thing other Presidents have done and suddenly Democrats are morally outraged.

That's a flat out lie. Give me the name of anyone pardoned by any previous prez who was a witness in a criminal proceeding involving that prez.

 

[berg80]

We can shut this whole thread down in two words. Coming from Bill Clinton's pardons. Mark Rich.

Was Marc Rich under investigation by Clinton's DoJ for crimes other than the one he was sentenced for at the time of the pardon? Did he use a connection with Al Gore's dad to help grease the skids?

When you have nothing false equivalences abound.

 

[justoffal]

Yawn.

Yep double YAWWWWWN.

 

[berg80]

Yep double YAWWWWWN.

See post #24.

 

[jknowgood]

Fatuous claims with no basis in truth do not cover up trump's record of giving pardons to
friends, allies, donors, witnesses who did not cooperate with investigations that involved him and his campaign, and those who could help him politically.

Did you look at Clintons pardons?

 

[Polishprince]

Did you look at Clintons pardons?

Clinton pardoned Roger Clinton, who smuggled tons of cocaine through the Mena Arkansas airport. Cocaine is worse than grass, no?

 

[1srelluc]

See post #24.

 

[berg80]

Did you look at Clintons pardons?

I'd be glad to. Why not start a thread about it? This one is about trump's abuse of his pardon power and his circumvention of the process by which pardons are recommended or not.

 

[berg80]

Clinton pardoned Roger Clinton, who smuggled tons of cocaine through the Mena Arkansas airport. Cocaine is worse than grass, no?

Roger was pardoned for drug charges after having served the entire sentence more than a decade earlier. Don't bother bringing shit like that in to a thread of mine.

 

[Marener]

Did you look at Clintons pardons?

Did you look at who is on the ballot? It’s not Clinton.

Trump’s use of pardons was pretty deplorable.

 

[jknowgood]

Clinton pardoned Roger Clinton, who smuggled tons of cocaine through the Mena Arkansas airport. Cocaine is worse than grass, no?

Clinton also pardoned the people that bombed the states Capitol building in 1983.

 

[jknowgood]

I'd be glad to. Why not start a thread about it? This one is about trump's abuse of his pardon power and his circumvention of the process by which pardons are recommended or not.

He pardoned the people that bombed the states Capitol building in 1983.

 

[Nostra]

Trump has you wrapped right around his tiny fingers, CLOWN.

Seek help soon.

 

[berg80]

Clinton also pardoned the people that bombed the states Capitol building in 1983.

Your assertion has nothing to do with this thread. But I can see you have no defense for trump other than specious whataboutisms which is standard practice for his devotees.

I will say I won't be voting for Clinton though. Oh.........wait..........he isn't on the ballot.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

New York drug dealer whose prison sentence Trump commuted arrested on assault charges​

A convicted New York drug dealer and predatory lender who walked free from a 10-year federal prison sentence after it was commuted in 2021 by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested on assault charges, court records show.

Jonathan Braun, was accused in court filings in Nassau County, Long Island, of assaulting his 75-year-old father-in-law on Tuesday, as he was trying to protect his daughter from Braun. Separately, Braun was also accused of assaulting that woman, his wife, last month and again last week, The New York Times reported.

Court records show Braun pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Wednesday to three counts of assault and was released on those charges without bail.

He was also accused in Nassau County Supreme Court of petit larceny, which the Times reported is related to allegations he failed to pay $160 in bridge tolls while driving a Lamborghini and Ferrari, both of which lack license plates.

Braun was fined $20 million in February by Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff in a civil case where the Federal Trade Commission had sued Braun for predatory lending practices.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/22/trump-clemency-recipient-jonathan-braun-arrest-assault.html

Trump’s Last-Minute Pardon Frees Man Still Facing Accusations of Violence​

President Donald J. Trump’s late-night commutation of a 10-year prison sentence being served by a drug smuggler named Jonathan Braun made the action sound almost routine. The White House said only that upon his release, Mr. Braun would “seek employment to support his wife and children.”

What the White House did not mention is that Mr. Braun, a New Yorker from Staten Island who had pleaded guilty in 2011 to leading a large-scale marijuana smuggling ring, still faces both criminal and civil investigations in an entirely separate matter, and has a history of violence and threatening people.
As recently as two and a half years ago, Mr. Braun was accused of throwing a man off a deck at an engagement party. Federal prosecutors said in a court proceeding that he threatened to beat a rabbi who borrowed money to renovate a preschool at his synagogue. “I am going to make you bleed,” he told the rabbi, according to court documents, adding, “I will make you suffer for every penny.”

Trump’s Last-Minute Pardon Frees Man Still Facing Accusations of Violence (Published 2021)

Jonathan Braun’s 10-year sentence for running a drug ring was commuted by the departing president. The White House did not mention that he faces separate accusations of violence and threats.

www.nytimes.com

There is a formal process involving the DoJ the WH is supposed to go through for folks who apply for a pardon or a commutation of a sentence. A review board normally takes a look at each case and makes a recommendation to the prez.

That process was circumvented as trump doled out clemency to friends, allies, donors, witnesses who did not cooperate with investigations that involved him and his campaign, and those who could help him politically. Does anyone really think a review board would have recommended the pardon of convicted felon Roger Stone?

This is the kind of demonstrable corruption you're voting for if you vote for His Orangeness.

Holy shit now I have to vote for Democrats and soros da's

Thanks for setting us straight fag